Music and Fandom

So, Bon Jovi is going for a country album that'll be released this year (Along with another rock n roller).

What's funny to me is reading articles and pretty much seeing the 'Oh my god, Bon Jovi can play country music?!' reaction.

And I'm over here going, 'Uh guys? Blaze of Glory ring a bell?' Dead or Alive? How about a lot of the guitar rifts in several other songs that sound very country? (Richie's love for the steel/spanish guitar gets pretty obvious some days *g*). Not to mention they play've played blues, ballads, pop, out and out metal, and even something that sounds like it came straight off the back porch in the Bayou, complete with harmonica (Love for Sale, anyone?).

Listen to them sometime, and I mean the component parts of the instrumentation, not just the usual bouncy stuff that makes you grin if you're a fan or make bad jokes about poofy hair and lavender spandex if you're not. Just about the only thing they aren't up for playing right off the rack is Rap, Thrash, or Punk (Thank god. No offense, guys, but when it stops sounding like music and is either three minutes of repetitious noise, or sounds like the band is gargling cement while still in the mixer, it ceases to be music to me, good lyrics or not).

Anyhow, so yeah, I'm getting a kick out of this. And recommending folks that are inclined that way to give the album a try when it pops its little head out.

I know I will.

Oh yeah. It's supposedly going to be called Lonely Highway, after the song they did for Wild Hogs.

(What, me pimp? Say it ain't so...or maybe it is. *g*)

Way too young...

The rock group Boston loses it's singer...

Crap.

So our router died

And when she was awake, we spent seven hours not knowing that, although we spent a lot of time scanning for viruses, messing with networking, and cussing the connection and Verizon out.

After she went to bed though, I went and tested all the cables out, moved them around, made sure it wasn't just the ports we'd been using that went bad.

But unless I take the multi-line router out and just hook one computer back into the main modem, it's a no go, no matter what cable I put where. But at least the single line hook-up still works.

Bad news though, is that her computer doesn't seem to want to connect anyway, even directly cabled into the modem. Which is...not good. And I'm not sure why it won't work when mine will.

I do know that all her cables are under books and shit she stuffed back there to keep the cats out from behind the desk. Thing is, the sht really is ON TOP of the cables and line--I can not get even another centimeter of cable out of it. So I'm having a feeling part of her problem is likely broken cable wires.

...Feh.

Anyway, gonna at least try and finagle a new router from Staples tomorrow; they carry the same brand as the one we have online, so hopefully it'll be in stock.